Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-17
w. c. IT. U. COLUMN.
Edited and Compiled by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.


Our next meeting will be held on
Wednesday, Dec. q, at the usual
hour, in the new Methodist Church.
Please note the change in day of
week.
We fill our space this week with
extracts from an address delivered
before the National Convention by
the Rev. j. M. Hubert, pastor of
the first Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Nashville. Read it:
Ladies You have adopted reso-
luton of thanks for our hospitality.
| would offer this resolution which /
am sure will be voted for by all per-
sons present who are not members of
the Convention
Resolved, That the people of Nash
vile and of Tennessee are under deep
and lasting obligations to this Nation
al Convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union for
holding its sessions in this city.
Your coming has been blessing to
our family life. With some of your
hosts and hostesses there was no
thought, perhaps, when their doors
were opened to you, beyond that of
showing becoming hospitality; but
they have found that they were ZEN
tertaining angels unawares," and our
homes will be purer and sweeter be-
cause you entered them. You have
blessed our social life. To speak of
nothing else, the addresses delivered
to our mothers and wives and sisters
and daughters, by Misses Willard
and Bushnell on "Social Purity" are
worth to us all the cost and labor of
entertaining the Convention. By
your stay we have been benefited re-
'ligiously. You have come among us,
not as Baptists, or Methodists, or
Presbyterians, or Congregationalists,
or Quakers, but as Christians, in the
spirit of your Master, and virtue has
gone out from you. Especially, in
this connection would | mention the
Bible readings of Mrs. Hannah Whit,
all Smith, which have been so edify.
ing to her hearers. At ministers
meeting this morning, the belief was
expressed, and concurred in by all
that your Convention has been very
helpful to us as preparatory to thu
union revival services which we arr
soon to begin in this city.
Your Convention has been an agen
cy to overcome our extreme conser
vatism here in the South. One goot
man, who thought that women wer
out of place at such gatherings, ant
that you ought to be at home wit
the children, now declares that tn
hand of God is in this thing. Som
Of our people are unwilling to ope
their churches to you, not out of OF
position to temperance, but becaus
they thought churches should be use
only for religious meetings, and the
knew not just how religious yo
would be! Having heard SO man
things about "long-haired men," the
supposed you were coming here I
hold stormy political convention
Now they think it would be imposs
BILE for these women to hold any bl
very religious meeting. One of IN
officers who had opposed your havir
this house, said to me yesterday:
am soundly converted, and will vo
for the women to have whatever the
want" Many of our people count
an unbecoming thing for woman
speak in public. One of my chur'
officers, when complimenting al
public performance Of a woman, s
ways modifies it by saying, ut dc
very well for a woman" After Nj
Lathrap's sermon last night, my wi
asked him how he liked that, and
said: ut was excellent" Exc,
lent for woman, do you mean
said my wife. "No," said he, &c
cellent for anybody"
In one of our churches there W
tie vote on the part of the office
ON the proposition to let some of Y
good women occupy the pulpit
Sunday. The chairman cast the {
Gliding vote against you. One ofyo
strongest women was assigned to
his guest, and, metaphorically, :
has rolled him over and over like
barrel of salt, until, like Simon
ter, he has gone out INTO the ola
night and wept bitterly in repC
lance, and now says if he had
vote again he would invite you il
the pulpit. Laughter. All this
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